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I should like to start by assuring you in connection with the thematic strategy on waste that, whenever we need to legislate in order to protect the environment and the health of European citizens, we shall legislate.
In an effort to suppress all non-sustainable trends, it also aims to maximum possible synergisms between these three dimensions. The broad range of challenges covered includes climate change and clean energy, natural resources, transport, public health, social exclusion, demographics and immigration and global poverty.
Sustainable development addresses issues which truly relate to citizens. They want prosperity but they also want a clean environment, good health, social protection and justice. The new strategy proposes a long-term vision for a sustainable Europe which goes well beyond 2010.
Sustainable development is the primary objective of the Union. Both the Lisbon Strategy and the sustainable development strategy are predicated on implementing this objective in a fast-changing world.
The Lisbon Strategy and the sustainable development strategy reinforce each other. The new strategy addresses some of the weaknesses in the previous strategy, such as unclear priorities and the lack of a clear monitoring mechanism and it confirms the main challenges, clarifies the objectives, responds to the existing, often fairly questionable objectives within the framework of the corresponding policies and defines a new and stricter monitoring mechanism.
It pays particular attention to action and effective application in all policy sectors and the participation of all the interested agencies in the relevant procedure.
We wish to go beyond words and to identify priorities for the next five years. The Commission wishes to cooperate with Parliament and the Council over the coming months, under the aegis of the Austrian Presidency, so that a common strategy can be agreed which will be broadly supported by all the institutions of the European Union and the Member States.
A strategy agreed at European level is needed if we want to galvanise European society into making important changes and to put the European Union on a more sustainable course.
Consequently, you need have no concerns on that account and the thematic strategy on waste truly is a step forward. We shall debate this when the time comes.
I should like now, on behalf of the Commission, to welcome the contribution by the European Parliament to the review of the European Union sustainable development strategy. The exceptional Ferreira report contains many valuable proposals for the review, putting particular emphasis on the environmental aspects of sustainable development. Many of the proposals are reflected in the Commission communication.
Following the approval of the Commission communication on the sustainable development strategy, the Commission wishes to cooperate more closely with Parliament and the Council and, on the basis of this communication, to get a European sustainable development strategy approved in June. The Ferreira report will be very useful in the consultations leading up to the European Council in June.
Allow me to analyse further the Commission communication which we approved on 13 December and to add certain comments on the Ferreira report. The Commission communication is the third and final stage in a detailed review procedure which has lasted over 18 months and in which many interested agencies have participated from the whole of Europe.
It is true that a fair amount of time was needed for the review but careful discussions were needed on such an important, broad-ranging strategy.
The Commission presented three communications on the strategy in 2005: the guidelines in February, the draft statement of principles on sustainable development which the Council approved in June and the revised strategy with objectives and a more effective monitoring procedure on 13 December 2005.
The Ferreira report focuses mainly on the environmental aspects of sustainable development. These aspects are indeed very important, given that non-sustainable environmental trends constitute some of the main threats in relation to our present and future prosperity.
Nonetheless, it should be emphasised that the sustainable development strategy refers to all three aspects of sustainable development, namely the social, economic and environmental problems."@en1
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